The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Aristotle

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle

Well begun is half done.
Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle